The Seahawks still have one enormous advantage over the rest of the NFL

Every team in the NFL faces the same two difficult hurdles. That
is, every team wants a franchise quarterback and once they get
one, they have to figure out a way to pay them what they are
worth and still be able to afford a quality roster around him.

With Russell Wilson still without a new contract — and it is
looking more and more
like he won't get one this offseason — the Seahawks are the
envy of the NFL with a franchise quarterback scheduled to have a
salary cap figure of just $1.7 million this season, or about 1.1%
of their cap space. For comparison, the other 31 NFL teams have
an average of 9% of their salary cap taken up by quarterbacks and
many of them don't even have a franchise-quality signal caller on
the roster.

Wilson is grossly underpaid for what he has accomplished in the
NFL. But in the short-term, there is a huge advantage to the
Seahawks to wait before they give him the big contract he
deserves.